News and Analysis 10/30/25

Israeli war crimes continue:

• Three More Palestinians Killed in Jenin as Israel Offensive Enters Tenth Month (Press TV)
• After Settlers Show Up, Israel Police Use Tear Gas to Disperse Palestinians Picking Olives in West Bank (Haaretz)
• Delivering Vaccines Under Fire: Palestine Red Crescent Teams Risk Their Lives to Protect Children’s Health in Gaza (ReliefWeb)

Reports of the murder of civilians include journalists and a hospital patients and staff in El-Fasher:

• ‘They Killed Civilians in Their Beds’: Chaos and Brutality Reign After Fall of El Fasher (The Guardian )
• CPJ Calls for Protection of Journalists in Sudan’s El-Fasher, Immediate Release of Those Abducted (Committee to Protect Journalists)
• Hundreds Reportedly Killed at Sudanese Hospital as Evidence of RSF Atrocities Mounts (The Guardian)

The Zionist war on free speech — and the resistance — continues:

• North Texas Activist Arrested by ICE for Social Media Posts Transferred to Georgia (KERA News)

“Notably, opposition to the disarmament of Hamas is strongest in the occupied West Bank, where around 80 percent of respondents said they want the group’s armed wing to maintain its weapons. … In Gaza, which endured … what the United Nations, world leaders and human rights experts have called a genocide, … 55 percent, said they opposed Hamas’s disarmament”:

• Overwhelming Majority of Palestinians Oppose Hamas Disarmament, Poll Finds (Middle East Eye)

“A new Hindi film revives the long-debunked myth that the Taj Mahal was a Hindu temple, exposing how historical revisionism has become a tool of India’s majoritarian politics”:

• The ‘Taj Story’ and the Hindu Right-wing’s Politics of Erasing India’s Muslim Past (TRT World)

“Police launched the investigation following a spate of attacks in May on the Palestinian village of Bruqin, which saw settlers torch homes as well as cars, and injure around a dozen residents”:

• Police Probe Far-right Settler Rabbi Suspected of Inciting Attacks on Palestinians (Times of Israel)

“The Western nation-state model—a fortress with set borders and a single dominant national identity—is not just failing to solve this conflict; it is the engine that perpetuates it”:

• The Land is a River, Not a Fortress: A New Path to Peace in Palestine (Counterpunch)

“What Palestinians suffered in the 1930s is unconventionally but brilliantly recalled in Annemarie Jacir’s drama that is all too relevant now”:

• Palestine 36 (Film Review Daily)

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